Pierre Étaix
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Pierre Étaix was a French comedian and filmmaker. Étaix made a series of short- and feature-length films, many of them co-written by influential screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière. He won an Academy Award for best live-action short film in 1963.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Roanne, Loire, France
Adult: No
Birthday: November 23, 1928
Age: 96 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 14, 2016
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Pickpocket
Overview: Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order to improve his craft. With a police inspector keeping an eye on him, Michel also tries to get a straight job, but the temptation to steal is hard to resist.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-12-16
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The Clowns
Overview: Fellini exposes his great attraction for the clowns and the world of the circus first recalling a childhood experience when the circus arrives nearby his home. Then he joins his crew and travel from Italy to Paris chasing the last greatest European clowns still live in these countries. He also meets Anita Ekberg trying to buy a panther in a circus.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-27
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Max My Love
Overview: The wife of a British diplomat in Paris takes a chimpanzee as her lover.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-10-22
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The Suitor
Overview: Absent-minded yet cultured, Pierre answers his parents demands to wed by ignoring both astronomy and the housemaid, instead falling head-over-heels for rich damsels.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-11-12
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Chantrapas
Overview: A filmmaker finds creative freedom more elusive than he imagined in this ironic comedy-drama. Tired of the state-appointed producers and censorship in his homeland, Soviet Georgia, Niko decides to move to France, only to find that he has merely traded one type of interference for another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-04-21
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Le Havre
Overview: In the French harbor city of Le Havre, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa into the path of Marcel Marx, a well-spoken bohemian who works as a shoe-shiner. With innate optimism and the tireless support of his community, Marcel stands up to officials pursuing the boy for deportation.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-08
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Yoyo
Overview: The story follows the son of a millionaire from the 1920s to the 1960s. After losing his fortune in the stock-exchange crash, he teams up with an equestrienne and becomes a circus clown.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-02-19
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As Long as You've Got Your Health
Overview: An anthology film consisting of four stories. (1) A man reads a Dracula novel while in bed, but cannot seem to tell the novel from reality, causing sleep troubles. (2) A man cannot escape the absurd ads he saw at the movie theater that day. (3) A polluted and construction-ridden town keeps everybody on edge, sending one man to the doctor. (4) A hunter, a farmer and a couple on a picnic unknowingly cause continuous trouble for one another.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-02-25
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Carrière, 250 Meters
Overview: A portrait documentary tracing the inspiration, philosophy and imagination of the celebrated theatre and screen writer - and Bunuel's long term collaborator - Jean Claude Carrière. Carrière predicts that between the house he was born in and the cemetery in which he will end there is a life journey of just 250 meters. "Carrière: 250 Meters" follows him as he reflects on the wealth of global traditions of storytelling, travelling through past and present, across countries and cultures from Paris to New York, Mexico and India and joined by his family, friends and collaborators. A testament to the life and work of an extraordinary man and a key architect in contemporary cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Land of Milk and Honey
Overview: Pierre Etaix’s most radical film, and perhaps unsurprisingly the one that effectively ended his career in cinema, Land of Milk and Honey is a fascinating investigative documentary about post–May ’68 French society.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-02-09
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Le Grand Amour
Overview: Pierre married Florence, the only daughter of a small industrialist. 15 years later, he is the boss, but his middle-class life worries him a lot. When a new young and lovely secretary comes, he starts dreaming.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-03-21
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La Métamorphose
Overview: A young man wakes up one day transformed into a giant insect.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-06-05
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A Swelled Head
Overview: A man inherits an old house in a very bad condition. With the help of a young mechanic, he begins to renovate this house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-06-20
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Happy Anniversary
Overview: Heureux Anniversaire is a 1962 French short comedy film directed by Pierre Étaix. While his wife impatiently waits and gets drunk, a husband tries to get the appropriate anniversary gifts and fight his way home through traffic in time for their celebratory lunch. It won an Oscar in 1963 for Best Short Subject.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-02-28
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Rupture
Overview: A man receives a breakup letter from his sweetheart, who sends him back his photo, in pieces. The pained lover decides to reply. Fountain pen, penholder, desk, stamps, paper and inkwell all contrive diabolically to thwart him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Docile Night
Overview: Jean is a successful painter who leaves his mistress, though he stops intermittently to phone her with explanations. Sometimes she is responsive but other times hangs up on him. Meanwhile, a 16-year-old male prostitute with whom Jean had a brief homosexual affair stalks the painter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-11-25
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Bouvard et Pécuchet
Overview: Two retirees obsessed with their desire to know everything put their knowledge into practice in a constantly awkward way.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-09-17
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L'âge de Monsieur est avancé
Overview: Only on the stage of an empty theater, an author and his wife clash: the scene and the life end up getting confused.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-12-30
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Gardens in Autumn
Overview: When he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty mistress and must begin life anew, without the privileges of power. As he gradually becomes acquainted with milieus which he d either forgotten or never known and a host of sometimes eccentric, often remarkable everyday people, Vincent really begins to start living again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-09-06
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Mon Oncle
Overview: Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away his rambunctious young nephew. Hulot's sister, however, wants to win him over to her new way of life, and conspires to set him up with a wife and job.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-05-10
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Feeling Good
Overview: Short film by Pierre Etaix, edited out from the anthology film As Long as You've Got Your Health (1966).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-02-25
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Winter Song
Overview: Two old friends have urban adventures connected to the skull of an executed French aristocrat.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-11-25
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Lucifer et moi
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-02-04
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The Clown
Overview: A documentary about Jerry Lewis' never-released movie "The Day the Clown Cried".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-02-03
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Pierre Étaix, un destin animé
Overview: A documentary on the career of famed French clown and filmmaker Pierre Étaix.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Doctor Lerne, Subgod
Overview: A mad scientist, Dr. Lerne, performs organ transplants not only between humans and animals, but also with plants and even machines ...
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-12-28
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Insomnia
Overview: French pantomimist Pierre Étaix plays an insomniac who makes the mistake of trying to read himself to sleep with a book about vampires. Short film included in the anthology film As Long as You've Got Your Health (1966).
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown
Overview: Since the early days, Jerry Lewis—in the line of Chaplin, Keaton and Laurel—had the masses laughing with his visual gags, pantomime sketches and signature slapstick humor. Yet Lewis was far more than just a clown. He was also a groundbreaking filmmaker whose unquenchable curiosity led him to write, produce, stage and direct many of the films he appeared in, resulting in such adored classics as The Bellboy, The Ladies Man, The Errand Boy, and The Nutty Professor.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-09-02
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On n'est pas sorti de l'auberge
Overview: It's about a couple owning a small hotel who are trying to sell it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-09-08
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The Army Game
Overview: Jean Lerat begins his military service at an army camp. Despite his aunt’s attempts to pull a few strings to his advantage, the unfortunate Lerat manages to get on the wrong side of his bullying colonel…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-11-25
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Serious as Pleasure
Overview: "In Serieux comme le plaisir, two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy anyway, so the trio doesn't worry much about money. One day they decide to take a trip in their beat-up car, managing the whole affair in their own special, insouciant manner. They are followed by a suspicious policeman who thinks there's something fishy about this group..."
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-01-15
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Le Pèlerinage
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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The Thief of Paris
Overview: In Paris around 1900, a young man raised by his wealthy uncle plots revenge after his cousin is betrothed to a rich neighbor. He steals the fiancé's family jewels, reveling in the thrill, and sets off on a lifelong path of burglary.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-02-22
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From Darkness to Light
Overview: Explores Jerry Lewis' unreleased 1972 film "The Day the Clown Cried," its mysterious disappearance, and the search for footage. Includes interviews with Lewis' associates and previously unseen production content.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-04-20
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L'aide-mémoire
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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